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Michelle Farnsworth

Michelle is the Content Marketing Manager at Calldrip. When she's not producing great content she enjoys reading, running, traveling, and spending time with her family.

Lead Generation Strategies and Techniques

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In a study, 61% of marketers state that generating high quality leads is problematic. There are many lead generation strategies, tricks, and tactics, but not all of them are effective.

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10 Strategies for Advancing Your Business

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As an entrepreneur you have undoubtedly invested a great deal of money, time, and sweat equity just to get your business off the ground. You have successfully survived the all-too-stressful startup phase, and now you are wondering what you need to do to take your company to the next level.

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5 Reasons Your Prospects Say “No” (And What You Can Do About It!)

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You’ve heard it time and time again. “No.” “We already use a similar product.” “Sorry, we’re not interested.” “Now is not a good time.” The bottom line is, rejection is painful no matter how long you’ve been in sales. It doesn’t matter how delicately (or indelicately) they put it, a no always means no. Or does it?

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Productivity: The Secret to Success

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Michelle Farnsworth

Everyone strives to be productive on a daily basis, at least to some degree, yet very few are actually doing it to their own satisfaction (or the satisfaction of others, such as their supervisors or spouse).

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Sales Calls, a Thing of the Past? Think Again.

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Michelle Farnsworth

It may be a bit of a mind bender, but consider this:

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Converting Leads is Still a Top Challenge for B2B Marketers

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Business-to-business companies are always on the lookout for potential clients who can really benefit from what they have to offer. As a result, lead generation has proven to be one of the most difficult yet crucial pursuits of a B2B. A lead generation study discovered that “Generating high quality leads is still the top issue for 59 percent of marketers.” The fact is, targeting the ideal person or company is more important to a B2B than getting a wildly high volume of ineffective prospects. Quality over quantity.

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Why It Pays To Be Quick

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The most pivotal analogy I’ve come across about lead response compares a lead to a freshly captured fish and here is why it pays to be as quick with your catch as it does to be quick with leads. 

Now, stay with me here.

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5 Tips to Help You Learn How to Negotiate to Sell Successfully

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Michelle Farnsworth

Negotiation is a part of life. This method of discussion can help accomplish personal and professional goals set for yourself. You can negotiate a job offer to achieve a higher salary, a promotion for advancement within your organization, or a better vehicle price at the dealership.

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7 Daily Steps to Business And Personal Success

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While the Merriam-Webster Dictionary indicates the definition of success to be “the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame”, I believe the true definition of success is in the eye of the beholder.

Priorities, beliefs, values, and our own varied histories all color the unique meaning we associate with such a word. Consider the following:

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8 Bad Habits that Impede Sales Productivity

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We all have them. Those tendencies that once started out small and innocent but have now slowly crept into our everyday routine creating, you guessed it, A BAD HABIT.

What happens when these poor practices are happening in a professional setting and not just in your personal practices at home? They pull you away from obtaining the success you are capable of and leave little room for your good habits to surface and shine.

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